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Today, some searchers found every site in Google’s search results carried the warning that: “This site may harm your computer”. Users who attempted to click through the results saw the “interstitial” warning page that mentions the possibility of badware and refers people to StopBadware.org for more information.
The problem affected internet pages across the whole [...]

China appears to have blocked access to the popular internet maps service - Google Earth. Google Earth is a virtual globe program that displays satellite images of varying resolution of the Earth’s surface, allowing users to visually see things like cities and houses from a bird’s eye view.
Google’s map and satellite-photo service offered Chinese Internet [...]

Google started introducing the AdSense Referral Program in November 2005 where publishers can get $100 bonus when they successfully referred someone into the AdSense network.
They slowly continued this program to include Google products (AdWords, AdSense, Picasa) as well as FireFox with Google Toolbar. And though western publishers get $1 for every Firefox downloads they refer, [...]

Google released a translation gadget which can translate blog or website easily from one language to another. According to wikipedia only 35.2% of the internet users are English, so it makes sense to add translation widgets for your blog to increase the reach for your blog.
Google Translator widget supports lots of languages as of now [...]

The free blog hosting services Google Blogspot and the free homepage hosting Google Pages are accessible in China today.
Some days before, Google BlogSpot is blocked again after the the 17th Party Congress finished in BeiJing , but after YouTube unblocked, the Google Blogspot and Google Pages both unblocked now, that surprise me, those blocking are [...]

Most efforts(using proxy or editing hosts file, for example) to bypass The Wall can work, . I’m going to write 2 methods dedicated for blogspot.
The easier way is to use pkblogs, who provides accesss to blogs “blocked in India, Pakistan, Iran or China”. But I think pkblogs itself may be blocked soon.
The more technical way [...]

The most popular blog host BlogSpot is blocked again after the the 17th Party Congress finished in BeiJing.
In the south China, BlogSpot is not accessible all the while, but in the north China, BlogSpot was suddenly accessible on October 15 in BeiJing. The 17th Party Congress started on October 15. Some believe that the current [...]

Numerous users find that if they trying to access Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft search engines from China are being redirected to Chinese-owned search engine Baidu yesterday.
Chinese DNS servers are under government control, some have accused Baidu of hijacking the traffic, but some suspect that Chinese government has unilaterally blocked there US search engines in China [...]

Today, Google released a Chinese version of Google Blog Search, the URL is blogsearch.google.cn . The IP address of “Chinese Blog Search” is in Bei Jing. Now Chinese users can use Google blog search services in simplified Chinese language.
According to Google Chinese Blog, the Chinese version of Google Blog Search can track most of Chinese [...]

Today, Google and Tianya (a famous Chinese community website) launched a free Q&A service - “Tianya Answers“. Some believe this is a strong competitors of “Baidu Zhidao” (the biggest Q&A site in China). In the bottom of “Tianya Answers” we can get “Google technology provide”.
Social search has been Google’s weaknesses, Google Answers is also defeat [...]